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Day 468-ish

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Jun 6, 2023
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I’m uncertain what day of the war it is. If we multiply 9 (years) by 365, not counting the leap years, that means, er, Day 3,285-ish, the first Tuesday in June when Russia blew up the hydroelectric dam in Nova Khakhovka.

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I stumbled across this shrine on Pushkin Street yesterday. Obvi someone’s trolling The Washington Post for failing the Palyanytsia Test

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Monuments and scooter gangs.

Photo c/o Stefaniia Bern

Tom at The New York Times takes us on a deep dive into Ukraine’s shoulder patch world

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. The article does not mention the Nazi flower arrangement on Druzhba Narodov Boulevard. Minus 5 (five) points.

It goes without saying that one of the things we all should not consider before joining a military fighting unit are the patches they wear on their sleeves, neck tattoos, et cetera. This geek crap might be interesting for Americans who are learning to love Ukrainian ethnogenetic eccentricities, but it doesn’t resonate with the locals

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My favorite military patch:

Video of the Day is Faithless by Mass Destruction

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Day 425. WAPO fails the Palyanytsia Test (April 25, 2023)

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Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History (The aNew York Times, June 5, 2023)

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Day 465. Ethnogenetic wishy-washiness (June 3, 2023)

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